How rescheduling debt for climate and nature goals could unlock a sustainable recovery
“As the world continues to struggle with COVID-19, it is faced with urgent, intertwined crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, pollution, and international debt.”
In a joint op-ed for World Economic Forum, GEF CEO Carlos Manuel Rodriguez and Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), emphasize the need to tackle these challenges with coordinated and scalable financial instruments to provide needed debt relief and sustainable growth.
'We need to do better, and certainly we can'
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema is Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, a 196-country treaty that aims to conserve the diversity of nature, ensure nature is used sustainably, and ensure that the benefits to people from the use of genetic diversity is shared fairly. In an interview, she shared what gives her hope as countries prepare to set new global biodiversity targets in 2021.
Why is biodiversity important?